Gwyneth Paltrow, 'I'll Take My Wrinkles, I Don't Like The Botox Thing'

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While the star claims that her diet isn’t always so strict, saying, “I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable,” she does admit to cleansing and detoxing frequently — in fact, she’s currently in the process of a 12-week detox program. “I have a lot of inflammation in my system, so I’m not having anything I’m allergic to—no gluten, no dairy, no sugar.” So, how does she decide to detox? “I’ll wake up exhausted; I can feel my adrenal cortex being really high. When I get into bed, my heart will pound, my skin won’t be good, I’ll feel cranky, and then I’ll just know it’s time,” she said.

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Gwyneth has a slew of enviable frocks — and she can’t wait to pass them on to her daughter, Apple! “I’ve been saving my clothes for her since before she was born. I was like, I’ll bet you anything I’ll have a daughter, and she’ll be a really cool butch lesbian and be so above clothes, and I got a very clothes-obsessed child. So if she’s a lesbian, she’s a lipstick lesbian. She doesn’t like anything avant-garde at all. She likes anything that’s pretty, pretty, pretty or has a bow or a ruffle or is pink.”

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When it comes to balancing carrer and family, Gwyn said it’s all about compromise — and it’s her husband’s career that currently takes precedence. “I have little kids in school. I want to maintain my marriage and my family, so I have to be here when he comes home.” Not only does Gwyn believe relationship is all about balance — but it’s also the advice she gives to friends, sighting an instance with one friend saying, “She is an actress and in a new relationship with someone else with a big career, and I said this may not be feminist, but you have to compromise. It’s been all about you and you’re a big deal. And if you want what you’re saying you want—a family—you have to be a wife, and that is part of the equation. Gloria Steinem may string me up by my toes, but all I can do is my best, and I can do only what works for me and my family.”
Read more: Gwyneth Paltrow Interview – Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes on Health, Family and Fashion – Harper’s BAZAAR

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With compromise comes honoring the commitment of marriage, Gwyn said, admitting relationships in the past weren’t always so sweet. “I had a boyfriend who used to cheat on me all the time. I was quite naive. I knew on a cellular level, but I bought his story.” While it doesn’t seem like infidelity is something Gwyn would tolerate, she said as she gets older her opinions change. “The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get. Life is long. I have friends who I love and admire who have had an affair. When I was younger, I would have said he’s a terrible person or she’s a terrible person. But who made these laws?”

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As for her belief and faith in marriage, Gwyn said it comes from watching her parents. She cites her father’s practical advice on the secret to a long-lasting marriage: “My parents were married for 30-something years, and he said [it was] because they never wanted to get divorced at the same time.” As for love, she said, “I think you do fall in and out of love and you just keep going, and every time you go through a really difficult phase, you rediscover something new and it just gets better. We’ve been married for more than eight years now, and we’re still into it.”

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While Gwyn and her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, are both very famous she says they like to be totally hands-on with their two children. “If I’m in L.A. for three days working, then my husband does the school run; it’s always one of us,” although she did admit the children have a nanny. “She’s French, so she’s teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they’re fluent in Spanish.” When it comes to dinner and bath time, however, Gwyn takes over, “we all get into the tub together,” she said.
Read more: Gwyneth Paltrow Interview – Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes on Health, Family and Fashion – Harper’s BAZAAR

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The star, who is in amazing shape, attributes her healthy routine to the devastating loss of her father, who passed away at 58-years-old after a battle with cancer. “All I’ve learned about nutrition and health came from his cancer,” she told the mag. “I’ll probably have a long and healthy life because he didn’t.”

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The 39-year-old star covers ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ where she admits to ‘lasers’ and a slew of detox programs — but not botox. Check out her sexy shoot here.
Gwyneth Paltrow may stick to a strict diet and workout regimen, but the 39-year-old star says she believes in aging gracefully — and naturally, (for the most part). “I’ll take my wrinkles,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar in the March 2012 issue. The cover star, shot in a slew of sexy black dresses by famed photog Terry Richardson said, “I don’t like the Botox thing” — although she did admit to trying, “little things, like lasers.”

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Gwyn opens up about the loss of her father in the mag, saying, “I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death. I don’t go back and say I wish he had done this differently, I wish he hadn’t smoked, because the fact is that he did and he died. As much grief and pain and trauma and heartache are caused, there was an equal amount of positivity that came out of his death.”